Go, Went, Gone

Jenny Erpenbeck

Richard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas, but now, retired, he steps into the streets of his hometown, Berlin. Here he discovers a new community in a tent city established by African asylum seekers and begins to question his own sense of belonging in a place that once divided its citizens into them and us. Erpenbeck writes on race, privilege and nationality and of an ageing man's quest to find meaning in his life.